ETA: This was written over the weekend, but I couldn't get it to post on my phone. So here it is a few days later. Forgive me for not editing it to real time.
I have been a bad blogger the last couple of months. I'm okay with that, actually, because I know it's due to the fact I've been busy, but I am (perhaps naively?) hoping that the much anticipated arrival of the summer vacation next week might indeed BE a vacation from the busy-ness, at least somewhat.
Jackson has one more day of school for the year. On Monday. Thanks for that, snow days! :) A few weeks ago, I started to get it in my head that yesterday was the last day, and i think it's because his class had its end of the year program last night. And oh my word, it was precious! There was a barn theme to most of the songs, so it follows that Jackson was a cow--when he wasn't acting as assistant director that is :). There was a sweet video from the year, that we all got a copy of thankfully, and that Jackson was happy to narrate for us. "That's so-and-so, I try to stay away from him because he hits me sometimes" or "that's such-and-such, sometimes she makes my nose smell bad." I mostly was shushing him during that part as you can imagine. All of his grandparents were there for him which was awesome, and even Aunt Kristin and Uncle Shawn made it in from Little Rock.
I'm so proud of J and all that he's accomplished this year. I can hardly believe the skills he has and his understanding of the way the world works. He is totally ready for kindergarten now, and just two years ago I remember wondering how he'd EVER be. It's pretty amazing. I'm so thankful for the opportunity and for his wonderful teachers.
Cooper cannot wait for school. He's been home with me all semester because we weren't sure how it would work to have all three kids in three different schools in three different cities. I'm kinda sad that that's the decision we had to make, and I think he and I would probably both have benefitted from it for different reasons :), but we have had some good times together. And I've seen some really great progress in him too. He's becoming quite imaginative and has started to have a little bit of a memory-- certainly not about discipline or consequences of course :). He is really into Spiderman now, even says he's gonna marry him when he grows up, which is hilarious to me. He is a potty-trained champ, has never had an accident overnight, and if I could just get rid of that pesky gap between the bowl and the seat, he'd be set in the bathroom too. He says things like "where was are you, Mom, I lost you!" and "can I have a piece of your coke?", and he never has fewer than four bruises on his knees and shins from all the adventures he gets into. Not to mention the scratches from the dog, who must protect himself from all Cooper's "love."
Ella is probably going to have tubes put in her ears soon. She's been treated for ear infections on and off since September, and she has yet to pass a hearing test in her left ear on five or six separate occasions probably due to a chronic fluid build up more than an actual neurological loss--we are hopeful anyway. But we've gotta get it resolved because it is not ethical for a child to receive speech therapy if she cannot hear it, so we run the risk of having her speech funding halted until we do. And she only started with her full time speech therapist two weeks ago because it took that long to get her permanent funding as it is, though she had been at the school for six weeks by then. I'm really trying to avoid any more delays in her treatment if I can. She is doing so well in school, and her progress is measurable even after only two months. So proud of her!
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